Image / The Port of San Francisco June 1st 1849.

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Title: The Port of San Francisco June 1st 1849.
Creator: Baker, Geo. H. (George Holbrook), 1827-1906
Date Created and/or Issued: 1849
Publication Information: S[an] F[rancisco] ; Geo. H. Baker, lith
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2007-0292
PRINTS-F-SIZE: SAN FRANCISCO: 1849
View from Rincon Hill looking northwest. Shows the city flanked by Telegraph and Russian Hills, three men on foot in foreground mule carrying supplies and man on horseback; San Francisco Bay filled with sailing ships; Mt. Tamalpais, Angel Island and the hills of Marin in the distance. From the original drawing by Geo. H. Baker made at date expressly for the New York Tribune and published in that papers' issue of Aug. 28th, 1849.
From the collection of Dr. Dean L. Mawdsley.
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. image on 12 3/4 x 16 in. sheet.
Identifier: (C)001387630CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-0924
Subject: Sailing ships--California--San Francisco Bay
Buildings--California--San Francisco
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Place: California
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)

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